ISBN:
9783110492507
,
9783110489798
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XXI, 720 Seiten)
,
illustrations, figures, tables
Year of publication:
2017
Uniform Title:
Golda: Biyografyah Poliṭit
Parallel Title:
Print version Golda Meir, A Political Biography
DDC:
290
Keywords:
Zionism
;
Middle East conflict
;
Israel
;
Meʾir, Goldah 1898-1978
Abstract:
For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman, great leader, with a magnetic personality, a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity. She failed in the top job – that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins, her American roots, her immediate family, her failed marriage, her rise in the party, the trade union movement, her massive and enduring achievements as Secretary of Labor and Housing, her ten year stint as foreign minister and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. She was a very good tactician, far less a strategist. She was a major builder of modern Israel whose influence on that country, on Israel-American relations and on Jewish history was evident primarily from 1969 to 1974. The author who served as spokesman for Golda Meir in 1973-1974 weaves a gripping story of one of the builders and leaders of the State of Israel
Note:
eng
URL:
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